Lynn Fitzpatrick Clinical Assistant Professor BS, Interior Design, Cornell University M.Arch., Rice University lfitz@uark.edu 479/575-8488

Lynn Fitzpatrick’s research interests focus on digital technologies in interior and architectural design and manufacturing.  Recent elective course offerings include “Computers in Architecture: Developing a Dialogue Between Digital and Analog Design Methods.” She has collaborated with faculty in the department of mathematical sciences on an interdisciplinary course, “Material Manipulations and Applied Structures,” which introduced students to the physical, geometrical and ethical implications of designing with minimal surfaces. Students worked collaboratively to customize software, design minimal surface modules, and construct structures that utilize these modules using a CNC router. She also heads the School of Architecture’s Visualization Lab and is the network administrator for the departments of architecture and landscape architecture.

Before joining the faculty in 1999, Fitzpatrick practiced both interior design and architecture with firms in Syracuse, N.Y.; Houston, Texas; Port Louis, Mauritius; Washington, D.C. and Boston. Mass. Her work included retail, restaurant and entertainment design as well as historic preservation. Projects received various awards including Syracuse Chapter AIA Historic Preservation Award, 1997, Texas Architect Design Awards Honorable Mention, 1994 and the Houston Chapter AISD Design Awards First Place 1993. While a graduate student at Rice University she was co-editor for the 1991 publication Rem Koolhaus: Architecture at Rice and was awarded the James T. Crowder Fellowship for travel to study the religious art and architecture of India, Nepal and Thailand.